Tom Lake: TAMPA — They arrested Audie Grogg one night in January, for no good reason, and one bad thing led to another. Jail is expensive. He was in his motor home, out of gas by the side of the road. He had a Coke and a Hershey bar. He had a flare gun beside him, painted black, in case of robbers. That was the first felony charge.
A few things to know about Grogg: He’s a Georgia boy, 52 years old, Wrangler jeans, cowboy boots. He welded for a living till his eyesight deteriorated, and then a car crash wrecked his left knee, and now he gets by on disability checks. Meekness is not his chief virtue. He distrusts the police.
This is why, when he saw the Hillsborough sheriff’s deputies approaching, he tried to capture the incident on audiotape. So he says, anyway. Proof comes and goes.
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